Issues in 9.0 installer
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
des at des.no
Thu Oct 6 10:32:28 UTC 2011
I installed 9.0 in a VM in order to test some patches, and ran into
three issues with the installer:
1) I selected "guided partitioning", then deleted the / and swap
partitions because I wanted more swap. I did not delete the boot
partition, but the wizard complained about there being none. The
first time, I answered yes to creating one, and ended up with two
boot partitions, so I deleted and recreated everything, and got the
same message again. This time I ignored it, and the install went
just fine; bsdinstall apparently found my boot partition and wrote
the boot loader to it.
2) When I recreated the boot partition, I noticed that bsdinstall does
not accept "64 kB" as a valid partition size. I had to type "64KB".
3) I had the installer create a user for me, but it did not create my
home directory, nor even /home.
Note that this is from BETA1 - I couldn't find a BETA3 iso online, but
bz had a BETA1 iso on his laptop. I apologize if these issues have
already been found and fixed.
DES
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